Communicated on 1 September 2016
SECOND SECTION
Application no. 33754/16
Damir PERKOV
against Croatia
lodged on 3 June 2016
STATEMENT OF FACTS
The applicant, Mr Damir Perkov, is a Croatian national, who was born in 1978 and lives in Zadar. He is represented before the Court by Ms L. Horvat, a lawyer practising in Zagreb.
The circumstances of the case
The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.
The applicant who is serving a prison term on Zadar Prison was seen by a doctor on 31 May 2015 and it was established that he had sustained grave bodily injuries.
On 11 November 2015 the applicant lodged a criminal complaint alleging that he had been beaten by two policemen on 31 May 2015. It appears that no steps have been taken so far.
COMPLAINTS
The applicant complains under the substantive and procedural aspect of Article 3 of the Convention that he was ill-treated by two policemen and that no investigation has been carried out so far.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
1. Has the applicant been subjected to ill-treatment, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention?
2. Having regard to the procedural protection from ill- treatment (see paragraph 131 of Labita v. Italy [GC], no. 26772/95, ECHR 2000-IV), was the investigation in the present case by the domestic authorities in breach of Article 3 of the Convention?
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